Software Applications: Building Materials: Feature List
     Feature List

Features for each of the modules include:

Job Site Management

Order Entry and Dispatch

Consolidated Invoicing

Inventory Management

Extensive month-end reporting

Accounts Receivable

Trucker Payables

Sales Analysis

Product Costing

Microsoft system features

Job Site Management

Establish tax rules, addressing, and shipping instructions for each job site.
GST Band No. for GST exemption.
Priority message reminder for pop-up in dispatch.
Track quantity ordered vs. delivered.
NEW - track regular block by EU in total.
Specify contracted pricing and discounting.
Flat pricing OR percentage discounts
Apply discounts by product class or by specific product
Apply discounts by customer or by specific job-site
Promotional pricing
Cartage charge
Override cartage rates
Effectivity date pricing
Effectivity date discounting
Pricing based on past price lists and multiple price lists

Order Entry and Dispatch

Windows GUI interface reduces learning curve
Customer and product screens alpha searchable
Drop down boxes for most selections
Mouse use optional
Pick lists in progress pop-up
All account pricing and discounting is totally automatic
Maintain price/ discount confidentiality
Maintain centralized control on price dealing
Override pricing and discounts on cash sales only
Pop-up inventory inquiry
NEW - View outstanding order/ projected available balance
Pop-up job-site shipped to date status
Ability to copy orders
Trucking related features
Cube count calculation
Cartage discounts
Split load bonus
Flat rate trucking supported
Optional pick list
Notes appear only on the pick list.
Bill of lading/ delivery ticket
Fully priced for cash sales
Shipping instructions, remarks and line comments
Skid count entry
Quotations
Copy quotes from orders
Turn quotes into orders
List prices and entered discounts only
NEW - Drop shipments from remote site inventory
Order is automatically transferred to remote site by Pipex

Consolidated Invoicing

Consolidate shipments for weekly invoicing.
Selectively invoice single customers any time.
Control totals balance to orders and to sales analysis.
Net change corrections
Reverse or correct a shipment or part of a shipment.
A single net change corrects:
o Customer billing
o Trucker payment
o Sales Analysis
o Inventory

Inventory Management

Real-time shortage checking (in dispatch).
Outstanding order requirements per product/ available inventory projection
Re-order analysis
NEW - Job delivery scheduling

Extensive month-end reporting

o Cost of production, sales, scrap, etc.
o Movement analysis
Purchase orders
Physical count subsystem
NEW - counts by department

Accounts Receivable

Detailed credit history - all credit calls logged
Credit management
o Credit limits monitored in real time
o Warnings to manager before limit is reached
Drill down from invoice to shipment detail

Trucker Payables

Calculates billing for cartage and also cost of trucking
Based on distance (zones) and weight or cube count
Print trucker statement and cheques
Special calculations for split load bonus, minimum weight, and flat rate trucking

Sales Analysis

30 different reports.
Easy to add additional reports using Microsoft Access.
Selectable by customer(s), job-site(s), product(s), product class(es), etc.
Booked Volume report
Skid control reports
Daily Sales Tally
Trucking history
G/L journal entry (comprehensive report)
All reports break down by location or total across all locations.
NEW - Sales budget entry
Summary totals by equivalent units

Product Costing

Standard cost roll-up based on mix formulation

Microsoft System features

Any report can be e-mailed and viewed by Snapshot Viewer.
Export any report to Excel for spreadsheet or pivot table analysis
Standard search features on all maintenance screens
Standard filter features apply on many screens

   
© Slofstra Software Inc. 2002
Last updated August 2002